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The object of this song refers to Stevie Nicks' view out of a friend’s window, “looking out at the Rocky Mountains pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us … at that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways”.

The “mountain” Stevie describes is a recently ended relationship, one which she clearly wanted to continue while her partner did not. “Turning around” on the mountain is a metaphor for giving up on what she had originally intended to finish all the way to the top.

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On his show, Bill Maher “revealed” some snippets from Putin’s first draft of this op ed, which was markedly more critical of American culture, specifically the prevalence of obesity and Barack O’s lack of a muscular chest.

DEAR FATASSES: I would like just a moment of your time. That is, if you’re up to reading something other than a Hot Pockets label.

Sarah Palin says you need to keep an eye on me? You need to keep an eye on her.

I’ll handle Syria. You can’t even control Hannah Montana. The White House can’t get kids to eat vegetables, for Christ’s sake!

Sorry, but it’s true. I am strong, Obama is weak. Have you seen me with my shirt off? I’ve got pecks. Obama has tits.

In conclusion, dear present and future type II diabetes sufferers – seriously, look at how fat you all are. I’d poison you at the dinner table but you’re already doing it.

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Jesus, who lived smack dab in the middle of the Roman empire, led a popular movement that was a) directly in opposition to the ceremonial pantheon of state mythology, and b) liable to challenge Rome’s power as more and more poor and disenfranchised were embraced.

This led to his crucifixion, a punishment which Reza Aslan says was reserved solely for bandits, enemies of the state, in his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. This book explores Jesus not as Christ or the son of God, but instead looks at his ministry as a politically subversive force.

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As is the “normal” heterosexual convention! Unless of course Abe means polygamy

For a nice primer, see the following video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvoH_nJUDk

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And so begins the tale of a young boy wrapped up in murder, frequent drug use, domestic violence, and mental illness.

A later line blames Hollywood’s aestheticization of these societal taboos for the detailed strife.

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It’s easy to imagine the ever-virile Vladdy dictating this aloud to his public relations team: out in a field, hunting weapon in hand, on top of a trusty mount.

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This sort of pattern, with the music pausing before an abrupt declaration of some odd sort of beauty, is followed throughout the song. All of these last lines also incorporate the color red – be it blood or wine.

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In the song’s original demo version, this line ends with “in the ghetto”, suggesting that we cast out those in the inner city, with tragic consequences.

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Perhaps the only positive note of this song, this line unexpectedly leads to a verse about the details of a boy’s death – however, the structure of the song is very well-constructed and every word, upon examination, does have its place. Nice job, Miss Jones!

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The full text of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction can be found
here.

In the same fashion, however, U.S. use of napalm in Vietnam can be brought up – it was employed with the objective of “deforestation” and conveniently it was only declared a chemical weapon by the UN in 1980.

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